Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Publications
Professional Associations

Dr Michael Gerrard

Telephone	+61 8 8303 4509
Position	Senior Lecturer
Email	michael.gerrard@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8303 4368
Building	10 Pulteney Street
Floor/Room	13 62
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Business School

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Biography/ Background

Michael worked professionally as a computing consultant before joining academia. He leads the Information Systems teaching team and focuses on how information systems are developed within organisations, particularly the relationships between users and computing professionals. His current research interest is electronic commerce and how Australian companies can use it to interact more effectively with other organisations

Qualifications

B.Sc. Hons, Ph.D. London

Teaching Interests

Information systems.
Business-to-business electronic commerce. Development of transaction processing systems. Computerised accounting information systems.

Research Interests

Electronic Commerce.

Publications

"Comparison of Taxi and Dial-a-Bus Services", Transportation Science (1974) Page 85.

"A graph theoretic analysis of bounds for the quadratic assignment problem" (with N Christofides) in Studies on graphs and discrete programming, P Hansen (editor), North-Holland (1981) Page 269.

"An Improved Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem", (with N Christofides) Imperial College, Report MS 76-1 (1976).

"Special Cases of the Quadratic Assignment Problem", (with N Christofides) Carnegie-Mellon University, W.P. 69-75-76 (1976).

"Keyboarding for Information: Don't let your thoughts get away from your fingers", (with U Carnegie) in Using Computers Intelligently in Tertiary Education, Proceedings of the CALITE'87 Conference, University of NSW (1987) Page 431.

"Computerised Accounting using SYBIZ" (with G Bromson and M Kaidonis) Prentice Hall Australia (1989).

"Market Simulation and Experimental Market Games in Mathematics and Economics" (with J Gaffney, P Burns, G Dunstan & A Fischer) in Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Launceston (1991) 215-223.

"Can you trust your system?" (with Edigio Zarrella) in Charter, October 1995, page 26 (Institute of Chartered Accountants).

Professional Associations

Member, Australian Computer Society

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